Statement - Courses of Action Questions and Answers

Statement: There have been quite a few incidents of highway robbery on the super expressway between/cities A and B during recent months.

Courses of Action:

1. The local administration should immediately set up police tickets along the expressway to prevent robbery.

2. The local administration should immediately close down the expressway till the robbers are apprehended.

3. More and more people should be given training on how to tackle with the robbers.

Statement: The Institute has fixed for the investors a validity period of one year for transfer forms for some of its listed schemes.

Courses of Action:

1. The Institute should consult investors before fixing the duration of validity period.

2. The investors should be duly informed about the validity period.

3. List of schemes covered under this validity period should be communicated.

Statement: The vehicular traffic has increased so much in the recent past that it takes at least two hours to travel between the city and the airport during peak hours.

Courses of Action:

1. Non-airport bound vehicles should not be allowed to ply on the road connecting the city and the airport.

2. The load of vehicular traffic should be diverted through various link roads during peak hours.

3. The departure and arrival of flights should be regulated so as to .avoid congestion during peak hours

Statement: There is a considerable increase in the number of persons affected by water-borne diseases during monsoon period.

Courses of Action:

1. The question should be raised in the Legislative Assembly.

2. The Government should disseminate adequate information regarding the pure drinking water to people.

3. All the hospitals in the city should be equipped properly for the treatment of patients during monsoon period.

Statement: Residents from Model Colony coming under North Ward of City X have complained to the Ward Officer that for last three days the tap water in the ward is contaminated and no action is being initiated by municipal staff.

Courses of Action:

1. The Ward Officer of North Ward should initiate action against residents who have lodged complaints against municipal staff.

2. The Ward Officer should ask his junior officer to visit Model Colony to assess the actual condition of water with his staff and to get samples of water tested from laboratories.

3. The Ward Officer should ask Ward Engineer to check water installations and pipelines in the Model Colony area.

Statement: People residing in some tribal areas are far from education.

Courses of Action:

1. Government should render all help to the NGOs to open schools there.

2. A mass awareness programme must be initiated in these areas.

3. Social workers should be entrusted with the job of educating them.

Statement: The exodus from villages to cities is detrimental to both.

Courses of Action:

1. Rural postings must be made mandatory.

2. There should be fewer trains linking cities to smaller places.

3. Employment generation scheme should be launched in rural areas.

Statement: Major part of the rabi crop in the district is damaged due to unseasonal heavy rains during the last few days.

Courses of Action:

1. The government should grant relief to the affected farmers to compensate their loss.

2. The government should provide free seed and fertilizer to the farmers for the kharif season.

3. The government should waive all the loans taken for the rabi crop by the affected farmers.

Statement: Large number of people have become critically ill after consuming spurious liquor from a local shop.

Courses of Action:

I. The Government should immediately close down all the shops selling liquor till the stocks are tested for presence of toxicity.

II. The owner of the liquor shop should be asked to leave the town and open a shop elsewhere.

III. The owner of the liquor shop should immediately be arrested and tried for criminal negligence.

Statement: Every year thousands of eligible students do not get admission in colleges both in urban and rural areas after passing their school leaving certificate examination.

Courses of Action:

1. More colleges should be set up in both urban and rural areas.

2. The number of schools in both urban and rural areas should be reduced.

3. More schools should offer vocational courses to equip students for taking up their vocation after completing their school education.